After The Terminator became a huge hit for James Cameron in 1984, the budding filmmaker managed to top himself with Terminator 2, bringing his former villain back as a hero for the sci-fi sequel in a neat twist. But Cameron also indulged in some major revisionist history, adding a supposed flashback from the first movie where Michael Biehn’s Kyle Reese prophetically tells Linda Hamilton’s Sarah Conner, “There is no fate but what we make for ourselves.” The only problem is, unless the machines went back in time and erased the scene from all our DVDs, that never happened.

Regardless, the whole “no fate” idea would go on to become the franchise’s driving mantra, that we can change the future and prevent the impending robo-pocaylpse, after all. Well, at least until Terminator 3 decided that “Judgment Day is inevitable” some 12 years later. So in other words, when Genisys then turns around and decides that on second thought (or is that fifth thought?), maybe it isn’t? It’s just continuing on in a proud franchise tradition.